Defense Daily Archive
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Monday, April 15, 2019
- Defense Watch: More WGS? Icebreaker Concerns, HASC Markup Schedule, In-Q-Tel Investment
- Air Force’s Next Pitch Day to Focus on Space
- Air Force Pushing To Cut 100 Years From Contract Schedules With Agile Software, Digital Engineering
- Long Live the King: With Problems Fixed, CH-53K Contract Expected in Weeks
- Senators Largely Skeptical Of Space Force Proposal; NRO Could Join Later
- UPDATED: US Marines Plan to Experiment With Fully Autonomous K-MAX Helicopters
- Mack’s First New Heavy Dump Truck Test Vehicles Readying For Army Testing
- SpaceX’s Historic Falcon Heavy Arabsat-6A Launch Is a Success
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Friday, April 12, 2019
- Air Force Leaders Outline Potential Elements of Space Deterrence
- Air Force Space Command to Reveal New SATCOM Strategy by End of 2019
- Pekoske Tapped As Acting Deputy At DHS; Cogswell To Lead TSA
- Amazon, Microsoft To Compete For Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Cloud, Contract Award Likely Mid-July
- VCNO Moran Nominated To Be CNO
- Air Force to Begin Open Skies Sensor Suite Sustainment in 2020
- Navy Orders 24 E-2Ds from Northrop Grumman
- THAAD Headed To Romania While Aegis Ashore Gets Maintenance
- Marine Corps Looking To Open Architecture Approach For SIGINT Modernization
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Thursday, April 11, 2019
- Air Force Planning to Stand Up Space Force by 2024, Pending Lawmakers’ Approval
- Navy Secretary ‘Pretty Confident’ Frigate Cost Will Stay At Estimate
- Stryker Lethality Upgrade To Start With Integration Tests In June, Weapon System Contract In FY ’20
- Polar Star Departs Soon For Annual Dry Dock Work In Preparation For Next Deep Freeze Mission
- Bipartisan Bill Reintroduce In Congress To Help States Bolster Cyber Security
- Hughes to Develop Protected Tactical Enterprise Service for Boeing
- Global Space Agency Leaders Offer Views On Next 50 Years For Space Industry
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019
- New SDA Director Unveils Notional Space Architecture, Outlines Top Agency Priorities
- Roper: Air Force Close to Resuming KC-46 Deliveries
- FVL ‘Absolutely Fundamental’ to Army Maneuver Warfare Against Near Peer, Milley Says
- Japanese F-35A Fighter Missing over Pacific Ocean, Remaining Fleet Grounded
- Air Force Officials Defend F-15EX Buy As Gapfiller To Meet Operational Readiness Challenges
- White House Nominates Stratcom Commander for Vice Chair, Joint Chiefs
- Thornberry To Introduce Two Pentagon Reform Bills In May Ahead Of HASC NDAA Markup
- SecNavy, CNO Confident Ford Ready By October, Amphibs May Be Bought Faster
- L3 Protests TSA Checkpoint CT Award; TSA Hopes To Accelerate Acquisition Schedule
- Rocket Lab to Provide a Speedy Ride to Orbit With New ‘Photon’ Spacecraft
- State Department Approves $1.15 Billion SM-3 IB Missile Sale To Japan
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Tuesday, April 9, 2019
- Northrop to Test First Stage of New OmegA Rocket in May
- BWXT Blunder With Columbia Missile Tube Welds Chewed Two-Thirds of Program’s Margin
- Harris Receives $84 Million to Produce Experimental Satellite to Enhance GPS Capabilities
- GAO: Columbia Construction Costs Unrealistic
- Army To Look For IVAS Data Capability, As Officials See First Headset Prototypes This Month
- Arnold Defense Receives First Order For New Land-Based Laser Guided Rocket Launcher
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Monday, April 8, 2019
- Defense Watch: RC-135 Role in ABMS, SECAF to UTEP, Unfunded TSA Priorities
- Harris To Sell Night Vision Business To Elbit, Moving A Step Closer To Completing L3 Deal
- Lawmakers Continue to Press Air Force on F-15EX Buy
- HASC Chair Reintroduces Bill to End Sequestration
- Navy Reports Progress On Increasing Fighter Mission Capable Rates
- MDA Director Retiring In July, Deputy Nominated to Take Over
- O’Gara Receives $60.7 Million Army Deal For FMTV Armor Kits
- New Collins Electric Aircraft Lab Has High-Voltage Engine Goals
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Defense Daily, Friday, April 5, 2019, Vol. 282, Issue 5
// PDF View- Air Force to SASC: Possible Sequestration Would Cut $29 Billion from FY ’20 Budget
- Shareholders Of Harris, L3 Approve Merger
- Army To Start Enterprise IT “As A Service” Effort With Three Pilot Programs In FY19, Five More In 2020
- B83 Bomb Can Go 5-7 More Years Without Major Refurb, DoE Says
- Army Reveals Official Requirements For Future Black Hawk Replacement
- Doubling Cutter Presence In Drug Transit Zones Would Crimp Drug Trade, Schultz Says
- Navy Rules Out Contamination As PE Cause, Narrows Factors
- Greaves Describes MDA Salvo Test Success And RKV Delay
- GAO Finds Mixed Results In TSA’s Covert Testing Efforts
- Army Releases RFI For New Small UAS
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Thursday, April 4, 2019
- Turkish Foreign Minister: S-400 ‘Will Not Be a Threat’ to NATO
- Ship-to-Shore Connector FOC Pushed Back Three Years, Increases Cost Growth Risk
- DoD Schedules Five R&D Small Launches in 2019 Under Rapid Agile Launch Initiative
- STRATCOM Declares IOC for New Nuclear C3 Enterprise Center
- ManTech To Continue Prototype Development For New Army Cyber Training Environment
- Army Selects Persistent Systems’ MPU5 Network Radio For 12-Month Evaluation
- Airbus Joins Competition for Australia’s Special Forces Helicopter
- Bids Are In For New Navy Training Helicopter
- Leonardo DRS Receives $132.1 Million Initial Delivery Order For Army’s Upgraded Rugged Tablets
- Tiger and NH-90 Helicopters Employed in Mali After IED Destroys Armored Vehicle
- Navy Announces SIOP Program Office Before Industry Day
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
- Smiths Detection’s Checkpoint CT Bid Well Below Expectations, Pekoske Says
- House Dems Unveil Two-Year Spending Deal With $733 Billion Topline, Higher Caps for DoD
- Kaptur Goes After NNSA Weapons Programs in 2020 Budget Hearing
- India Approved to Buy Two Dozen MH-60R Seahawks for $2.6B
- U.S. Army Plans to Divest All Alpha-Model Black Hawks by 2024
- Army Leaders Call For Fully Funded Modernization To Meet Peer Competition, Including Russia’s ‘Existential Threat’
- Thales Completes $5 Billion Acquisition Of Gemalto
- NASA Mars Helicopter: ‘The Next Time We Fly, We Fly on Mars’
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
- Pentagon Halts Deliveries of F-35s to Turkey Pending S-400 Procurement
- Congressional Angst Over Single Checkpoint CT Award
- NASA Leader: Potential FY’20 Continuing Resolution Would Delay 2024 Moon Landing Goal
- Cyber Command Releases RFP To Support J9 Policy Development, Strategic Coordination
- Army’s Retooled Rapid Capabilities Office To Focus On Hypersonics, Directed Energy And Space Technologies
- Boeing XLUUV Mod Brings Contract To $274 Million, Increased To Five Vessels
- Lockheed Martin Nabs $1.46 Billion For U.S. And Saudi THAAD Interceptors, Pushes Total To Almost $4 Billion
- Icelandic Coast Guard Upgrades Rescue Fleet with Airbus H225s
- Raytheon, Lockheed Look to Get Ahead of Huge NAS Radar Contract